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Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
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| 7/14/04
Posted on 07/14/2004 3:01:51 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Whoopi Goldberg will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bush's name at a fund-raiser last week, the company said on Wednesday.
Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" in Goldberg's remarks at last Thursday's $7.5 million star-studded fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
"Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, adding that the company regrets that Goldberg's remarks offended some customers.
Republicans have expressed outrage over the fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, John Edwards, in which entertainers lined up to skewer the president.
The New York Post said of Goldberg's appearance at the event: "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia."
A spokesperson for Goldberg declined immediate comment.
Slim-Fast is a unit of Anglo-Dutch food-to-detergent group Unilever Plc .
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comeuppance; fundraiser; hatespeech; johnedwards; johnkerry; kerry; mediabias; obscenity; oopi; raunchfest; slimfast; unilever; whoopi; whoopigoldberg; yourefired
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To: Lauren BaRecall
Thank G-d, I can still use Dove and Surf!
541
posted on
07/16/2004 8:01:06 AM PDT
by
TaxRelief
(Keep your kids safe; keep W in the White House.)
To: Lauren BaRecall; Caipirabob
LOL ! That's funny ! (I missed your comment last night/this morning until now).
542
posted on
07/16/2004 8:59:34 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: Caipirabob
543
posted on
07/16/2004 9:00:42 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: PhilDragoo
All I can say over her getting flushed is, WHOOOOooooOOOOooooOOPIE!!!!
544
posted on
07/16/2004 3:50:39 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Liberal Me<img src="dia: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
To: texasbluebell
For some reason, that photo reminds me of THIS debacle:
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Ted Danson appears onstage in blackface at a Friar's Club roast in 1993, during the period he was dating Whoopi.
It was a real hit! NOT!!
(click the pic for original story at rotten.com) |
I guess liberal idiots of a feather flock together!
To: FL_engineer
That's right! Blame me! :oD I think your selective memory forgot that if my fake Russian accent hadn't gone over as well as it did with the Sheriff, we'd probably still be trying to raise bail! LOL!
BTW, only $10 for that thing? I thought the going rate was much higher. You must have talked the guy down, huh?
I do admit being glad that they finally threw us out - otherwise we would have missed that gorgeous sunrise. :o)
However, I wonder if you remember that *I* was the one who walked out on my own two feet, and YOU were the one who had to be dragged. I got the biggest kick out of the way you were yelling the Declaration of Independence at them! LOL!
Strangely, I don't recall Thomas Jefferson's having written the Declaration *quite* that way...I mean with words like...well, you know....
546
posted on
07/16/2004 5:24:27 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: Happy2BMe
OMGosh! This is PRICELESS! OMGosh!
(Call in a master plumber someone, this will take days to clean up.)
This kind of BIG POOPI doesn't go down in one flush!!! LOL!
547
posted on
07/16/2004 5:33:38 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: PhilDragoo
Any time I can come home after a long, hard day in the salt mines, logon to FR, and see Poopi looking up at me from the inside of a toilet bowl, is a GREAT day!
Look! She's saying, "Help me, help me!" HaHa!
No way, Poopi! Pay a visit to the sewer where your friends, the RATS, live! HaHa!
548
posted on
07/16/2004 5:42:50 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: Caipirabob
This happened once in Rio to about the same degree, but that's for another thread. LOL! Another thread at another time, huh? Too bad! I just opened a beer, and I'm in the mood for a good story! :oD
549
posted on
07/16/2004 6:00:59 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: TaxRelief
For me, it's all about the mayo! I'm very happy for both of us. :o)
550
posted on
07/16/2004 6:07:12 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: MeekOneGOP
551
posted on
07/16/2004 6:09:07 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: Lauren BaRecall
552
posted on
07/16/2004 6:25:55 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: PhilDragoo
LOL, Whoopie doesn't know the right way to ride the rapids!!
553
posted on
07/16/2004 7:02:34 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(HECK IS WHERE PEOPLE GO WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN GOSH)
To: BobS
"Now she could do ads for Cialis or Viagra" If a man was thinking about needing Viagra, Whoopi could make him forget what he wanted it for.
554
posted on
07/16/2004 7:10:49 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: RasterMaster
"Democrats speak from their a$$ when not talking out of both sides of their mouths" I thought that WAS the other side of their mouths.
555
posted on
07/16/2004 7:12:12 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: Lauren BaRecall
Ouch, you're dredging up all the memories that were painful in more ways than one!
I think the Sheriff must have had the hots for you, because your fake accent was pretty affected by that concoction! What was that again? vodka/ex-lax and ethanol?
( They could have powered Charleston Park just from your fumes! ;-)
But it was HIS fault for offering you that cigarette. I wonder if his eyebrows ever grew back? Anyway, the Hellman's sure came in handy, I'm glad we didn't have to boycott THAT!
...and also that sunrise was definately spectacular!
ta ta, FLE
To: sweetliberty
"If a man was thinking about needing Viagra, Whoopi could make him forget what he wanted it for."
Dear sweetliberty, it was a joke! You see, Viagra and Whoopie null each other out and become a total waste of time:)
557
posted on
07/16/2004 9:50:11 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: BobS
558
posted on
07/16/2004 9:55:41 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: 11th Earl of Mar
To: firebrand
There's also a premium brand that is just as good as Best Foods/Hellman's, and has preservatives, if you can find it. Luckily now, I won't have to give up my Hellman's
But I don't get it. Having preservatives is a GOOD thing?
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